[Personal] - General Update

Over the past few days I have added some more bits to my main scene, as well as almost completely finished the animation.


First of all, I have added audience members in the background:




The group on the left tap their feet until the race begins, and then clap for the duration of the race.




The middle group wave their arms in the air.




The right group wave each arm alternatively.




Finally, there is one person standing by the fence who follows the white lawn mower racer around the track.



The reason why I am showing each group on here is because unfortunately, from the camera angles that my scene is animated from, you cant really make out that the audience is even moving at all.



As for the actual animation, I have so far had to animate it twice. The first time I animated exactly how I imagined which was where the camera zooms in on the track, spins around the racers, then follows them around the track until the finish where the camera then zooms in on a golf ball that appears on the screen. Unfortunately, this came to nearly 40 seconds. Considering that we had decided that we would each animate 15-20 second scenes each, this was not good. So I had to re-render it without the camera spinning around the racers. This cut the animation down to 30 seconds. I believe that while this is still more than i planned to do, it should still not be long enough for the viewers to get bored. However, if need be I can cut down the animation even further by speeding up the racers...

I am now at the final stages of completion. All I have to do now is change some of the textures used, position the camera at better angles, and add a bit at the end to neatly link my scene to Mike's golf scene.